Little League Baseball Quotes:

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

- Babe Ruth

source: Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games, Yankees Baseball, Motivational Baseball

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Baseball, League, Parent, Major League Baseball, Yankees Baseball

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

- Ted Williams

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Sports, Baseball, Athlete, Major League Baseball, Softball Player

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

- Duke Snider

topic: Baseball, Swings, Balls, Little League Baseball

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

- Tommy Lasorda

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Baseball, Sports Leadership

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

- Willie Stargell

topic: Baseball, Games, Play, Opening Day Baseball, Little League Baseball

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

- Bob Lemon

topic: Baseball, Kids, Made, Little League Baseball, Great Baseball

I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.

- Carl Yastrzemski

topic: Baseball, Dream, Morning, Baseball Games, Opening Day Baseball

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Sports, Kids, Yankees Baseball, Little League Baseball

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

- George Will

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Little League Baseball, Great Baseball

It's supposed to be fun, the man says 'Play Ball' not 'Work Ball' you know.

- Willie Stargell

topic: Baseball, Fun, Men, Little League Baseball, Playing Baseball

Slump? I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

- Yogi Berra

source: Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 2 Apr. 1984

topic: Motivational, Baseball, Coaching, Inspirational Baseball, Deja Vu

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living.

- Phil Linz

topic: Baseball, Fun, Games, Baseball Games, Opening Day Baseball

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

- Jim Bouton

topic: Teamwork, Sports, Baseball, Baseball Games, Sports Football

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Baseball, Crazy, Thinking, Little League Baseball, Baseball Player

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

- Earl Wilson

topic: Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games, Inspirational Baseball, Opening Day Baseball

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.'

- Ted Williams

source: Ted Williams, John Underwood (1988). “My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Baseball, Men, Little League Baseball, Baseball Player

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.

- Ted Williams

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Little League Baseball, Baseball Hitting

A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the pitcher is concerned about you, he isn't concentrating enough on the batter.

- Joe Morgan

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Baseball, Games, Stealing, Concentrating, Little League Baseball

My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Baseball, Grandmother, Boys, Little League Baseball, Great Tragedy

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.

- Adam Sandler

source: "Adam Sandler Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

topic: Baseball, School, League, Little League Baseball, Little League

I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Baseball, Cities, League, Pasadena, Little League Baseball

I played no sports well. Because I was a boy in the United States Of America, I was forced into Little League and played horrible Little League baseball, and played football and basketball in school situations where I was forced to.

- Ira Glass

source: "Ira Glass on doing magic tricks, Brad Pitt, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.avclub.com. August 2, 2016.

topic: Basketball, Sports, Baseball, Little League Baseball, Little League

My real-life athletic career was not very much. I played Little League baseball.

- Dennis Quaid

topic: Baseball, Real, Careers, Little League Baseball, Little League

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

- Dan O'Brien

topic: Baseball, Winning, Thinking, Little League Baseball

My parents didn't know what to do with me. They got me into Little League Baseball, I played out in right field, cause I stunk.

- Brian Regan

source: "Brian Regan Live". Comedy, 1997.

topic: Baseball, League, Parent, Little League Baseball

I'm the youngest of five kids, and I wanted attention. And in Santa Barbara, there was lots of theater going on, so for that area, it was a little bit like playing Little League baseball. There were dance classes, theater classes, and I just loved it.

- Anthony Edwards

topic: Baseball, Kids, Santa Barbara, Little League Baseball, Barbara